DaySpring Daily Word of Inspiration: Psalm 119:10 – With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
As we begin this week we want to present a simple idea to help us get in the proper frame of mind so we may ingest what God would have for us and say to us throughout this week. With this passage of scripture in mind, we want everyone to evaluate where it is our attention and focus is at this moment. Some of us will be concerned about a bill that needs to be taken care of, others will be considered about how to get to work for the rest of the week, while another may be concerned about what they’re going to others for Christmas. We have things on our hearts that we seek to find resolution for but we go about it the way we’ve been taught by the world. I submit to you today, our affection for these different things dictate our focus for our future.
For the one who is more concerned about how to ascertain things of this world, you will be focused on how to manipulate and construct life based on the principles of this world; what we know because we’ve searched out how others in this world overcame challenges or obstacles. We hold to these teachings as our bibles (if you will) to instruct us on how to go about this life. You believe that living by these ideas will bring about the power, prestige, prominence, possibilities you’re hoping for. Our hope is in the tangible things that we have seen and/or know. However, when we seek after God we are wishing for something outside our sphere of influence that we cannot see. The scripture points us to the desire to not wander away from God commands. This is our parallel. In contrast to the things we would hold onto via worldly instruction, we hold onto the rich teachings of God for our security and elevation. It is not in things that we’ll seek after but in God’s hand over all our circumstances we seek; relying on him in faith that He can and will provide direction, providence and prosperity through His word as we attach ourselves to its truth.
What do you seek today? What is it that you’re dedicated to? For what we seek is what we are lending our allegiance to. The ways of this world and how to go about in it aren’t the authority in which we should seek after; meaning that we shouldn’t seek more to gain things in this world, by its means, and be subject to the way it would suggest we have to go about having meaningful and fruitful lives. Instead, let us be more like the scripture’s writer here; longing for God and wanting to attack life by his direction and teaching. We know the farther we get from His teaching, the less content with our lives we will be so as we grow and understand God’s word more, we’ll find it does our hearts happy to live out the principles of the bible (while providing less heartache, stress, and despair). Unfortunately, we’ll never truly experience this unless we seek to grow in His word first.
Today, we pray that your focus and affections aren’t seeking to be driven by the things of this world but that your heart is richly seeking after God and to be driven by his commandments and teachings; not only for your life to be full and content in everything, but for you to help someone else gain that same contentment in following God’s commands. God wants our hearts to be fully vested in him because when they are, we will never want to deviate from His commands. Seek God this day and as long as you may live. He is the only one who can supply the attributes you truly need to deal with any circumstance you may encounter – and He is faithful to do it, in exchange for your heart. With all that he has promised for those who are able to do so, would you want your heart to stray from His commandment? We pray you wouldn’t. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!